by Sonia Morland
On 20th July 2011 Goran Hadzic, the last fugitive sought by the United Nations war crimes tribunal, was arrested by the Serbian authorities. Only two days later he was handed over to be prosecuted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY), the court of law in The Hague established to deal with war crimes that took place during the violent conflicts in the Balkans during the 1990s.
Hadzic is the last of 161 war crime suspects to be charged. These wanted men have included heads of state, prime ministers, members of the army and numerous other political, military and police leaders; they are all men who committed acts of ethnic violence across the former Yugoslavia. So far, over 60 have been convicted.